THE SMART CITIES CONCEPT IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN THE CZECH AND SLOVAK REPUBLIC

The paper focuses on assessing the implementation of the Smart cities concept in Czech and Slovak public administration. Examination is subject to all the regional cities of the two countries, assessing whether the city has a developed development strategy and whether this strategy is in line with the Smart cities concept, given the conditions below. If the strategy exists, it remains to be seen how deeply the strategy focuses on smart governance, as a subdivision of the Smart cities concept. The main benefit of this contribution can be considered as a summary of the situation and a subsequent comparison of the current situation into a whole. Although in many respects the Czech and Slovak Republics are similar, it has been found that the concept of smart cities is included in all strategies of development of regional cities in the Slovak Republic, while in the Czech Republic only in ten of the thirteen cities surveyed.